Soft Bomb is an album by New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 group, The Chills

The Chills

The Chills are a guitar and keyboard-based rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand. In the 1980s and 1990s, they were one of the proponents of the Dunedin Sound.- History :...

 released in 1992. It was the follow-up to 'Submarine Bells

Submarine Bells

Submarine Bells is an album by New Zealand group The Chills released in 1990. This was the band's first album on a major label, as Martin Phillips signed to Slash Records, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Records, to release the album in the USA. The album reached number 1 on the New Zealand album...

' which had hit number 1 in New Zealand in 1990. Released to good reviews, 'Soft Bomb' was followed by a world tour with an enlarged Chills line-up. Unfortunately in the midst of their US tour, financial backing and promotion was withdrawn for the album and tour. This line-up of the band disintegrated and Martin Phillipps would take some time to rebuild the band. Phillipps parted company with Slash Records

Slash Records

Slash Records is a record label in Los Angeles, originally specializing in local and punk rock bands.The label was formed in 1978 by Bob Biggs as an outgrowth of the Los Angeles-based fanzine, Slash. Biggs, a painter, initiated the label with a seven-inch single from The Germs in 1978. A full album...

after this album and tour

Track listing

1. "The Male Monster from the Id"
2. "Background Affair"
3. "Ocean Ocean"
4. "Soft Bomb"
5. "there is no harm in trying"
6. "Strange Case"
7. "Soft Bomb II"
8. "So Long"
9. "Song for Randy Newman etc."
10. "Sleeping Giants"
11. "Double Summer"
12. "Sanctuary"
13. "Halo Fading"
14. "there is no point in trying"
15. "Entertainer"
16. "Water Wolves"
17. "Soft Bomb III"